apposite

This is not part of the sound design—it’s the clock in the store—but feels oddly apposite in ways both good and bad.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

"Deterrence is particularly apposite in this case given the current state of affairs in Sudan," she said.

From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2025

Depression had not previously been the subject of comedy, but it seemed appropriately apposite to a year of national self-celebration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2023

Overnight, we heard the British national anthem, “God Save the Queen,” updated to reflect the kingdom’s new reality, its apposite monarch tweaked in the title, its pronouns abruptly swung back to the masculine.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2022

The drummer sits cross-legged on the ground, and accompanies the beat of the drum with apposite words.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer